Forecasts Split on How Hot Dallas and Houston Will Get Next Week
Forecasters are split on how hot it will get in Dallas and Houston at the start of next week.
The temperature in the Texas cities may reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) for at least two days, said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland. The National Weather Service and MDA EarthSat Weather in Gaithersburg, Maryland, also call for hot weather in Dallas and Houston with temperatures in the 90s.
Dallas and Fort Worth have reached 100 degrees or more 70 days this year, the most on record and one more than in 1980, according to the weather service. Texas has also had the hottest summer for any U.S. state, with an average temperature of 86.8 degrees, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Oklahoma was second with an average temperature of 86.5 degrees.
The previous warmest summer was in Oklahoma in 1934, when the average temperature was 85.2 degrees.
“Both Dallas and Houston have another shot at triple digit temperatures this Sunday and Monday with a quick burst of stronger warming than expected across the area,” Rogers said in a note to clients.
MDA and the weather service call for a high of 97 in Houston through the same time frame. In Dallas, the weather service forecasts highs of 93 and 92, while MDA predicts 95 and 91 for those days.
Central U.S. Warmer
In the 6- to 10-day forecasts, both MDA and Rogers see warming in the central U.S., with the hottest temperatures in the northern Great Plains. The two forecasters diverge in the 11- to 15-day forecasts.
Rogers calls for warming in the central and northern U.S. with the exception of the Pacific Northwest and New England and most of the Northeast. He expects the rest of the nation to be near seasonal.
MDA focuses the heat in the central U.S. stretching the length of the Great Plains to Texas with cooler-than-normal weather developing in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern U.S.
Natural gas traders use long-range temperature predictions to gauge energy use and market fluctuations. Hot or cold weather can increase demand for heating and cooling, and power plants use about 30 percent of the nation’s gas supplies, according to Energy Department data.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian K. Sullivan in Boston at bsullivan10@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dan Stets at dstets@bloomberg.net
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